MI: Economic change of Global transactions through trade ruin African chronologic balance
Baquaqa: Muslim
-member of multiple languages
-born in Bein Republic
-Captured as a slave during neighboring war and in 1845 he was sold into the Atlantic slave trade
-failed to gain freedom through American courts and fled to Boston
Sub-Sahara Africa
-Western dominated world economy was a powerful force in recasting framework of African history
-Process of religious conversions and social change ruining chronologic balance
-Influence on emerging economy through Africa: slave trade
-slave based societies throughout modern world
The Atlantic Slave Trade
MI: Portuguese's hit contract with small African territories through man trade from factories of El mina
-Portuguese hit Africa by 1487 creating factories (trading ports)
-Main fort- El Mina
-main work accomplished on small local African territories
Portuguese benefit: Ivory, pepper, gold, animal skins....etc
-Complete religious conversion into Christianity
-Images of Portuguese begin to show in the bronze of Benin
-Permeant Portuguese foundations in Luanda on the coast
-Outer competition in trading stations
-Portugal were the first slave traders in Sub-Sahara Africa by 1441
-Sugar plantations
-By 1600 the slave trade predominated over all other kinds of commerce on the African coast
MI: Slave Trade in numbers
-Between 1450-1850 12million Africans were sailed across the Atlantic
-18th century: Great Age of Atlantic slave trade
-Slave military was high and fertility was low creating loss of population
-Concentration shift
MI: New trade resources for African population such as Maize and Manioc
-Majority of trans Saharan trade of women for use of domestic work
-Atlantic soave trade main focus of men for labor workings
MI: Competition of main source of slaves. This slave trade contributed to the formation of emerging Capitalism in the Atlantic world
-Royal African Company
-Merchant towns: holding ports of slaves
-diseases spread such as Malaria
Currency: Iron bars, brass rings, cowier shells
-Indies Piece: the selling of women and children
Both sides of African and European trade in compliance with one another
Triangular trade system is formed
African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave trade
MI: The Atlantic trade interacted with and transformed the earlier aspects of slaved societies
-African society slavery varried for peasnt status to something more like chattle slavery: "Property with a soul"
-Control of slaves aided individual or liniages to increase their wealth and status
-Slaves were used as servants, concubines, soilders, administrators, and feild workers
-extensions of lineage and kinship systems
-reinforced the herarchies of various African societies
-Slaves=Aliens
Women: domestic slavery and lineages extention
-Polygyny- more than one life
-postion of women dramaticaly lowered
-slavery illeagal to those of the Muslim culture
-African rulers did not ensalve their own people, except for crimes or in unusual circumstances; Enslavement was rather done of neighboring regions
MI:Many states of Western Africa were led into instability caused by competion and warfare as the states tried to expand
-Endless wars meant need for more military and made the sale of captives into slave trade an extention of polotics
-wars take on religious overtone of belivers against non belivers
-contory trend of self sufficentcy and anti suthern ideas developed anomg theses who were inbetween salve attacks
-European presence cause shift in Locus of Power
-trade of guns prove upper hand of other neighbors
MI: The rise of Ashante and Dahomey increase trade transactions while the arts begin to combine with European dealings
-Several large state developed in West Africa during the slave trade era: ritual authority and luxurious court life
-Empire Ashante (Ashanti) rose to prominerce in the period of slave trade
-ancenstory of the Akan people
-Under the vigourus Osie tutu the title asntelrs was created to designate the supreme civil and religious leader
-military reforms
-reign until 1820's
-2/3 of population consisted of slave trade of the Ashante region
-1517 limit of trade form Benin
-Dahomey ancestored of the Fon people
-Rise of power in the 17th century
-Autocratic and brutal political regime based on slave trade
-trade controlled by royal court
-As expansion increased, elimination of royal families and customs began to increae
-Unified state
-Dahomey (19th century) slave state dependence of human trade cause negativity of society
Growing divine authority of the rulers paralled the rise of absolutiontism in Europe
-Tradition arts- Bronze castings. wood carving, weaving
-Employ of Artifacts of past 16th century
-African artists display the spiritual world
-combinaion of Affrican and European motifs
MI: The workings of East Africa and Sudan as interior expansion increased as well as Islminization
-East Africa- Swahili trading cities continue on Indian Ocean
-Tradings
Ivory
Gold
Slaves
-Use of slaves soilders to increase terrtiory
-Arabian Merchants follow European Model producing slave plantations
-Large and small kingdoms were supported by the well-watered and heavily populated region of the Great lakes of the interrid
-Bantu speakers perdominated - Absorbed immagrants
-Luo people created consturctions or related dynasties among the states
-Power between 16th-17th century
Islamination entered new and violent stahe
-Linked to external slave trade
-Break up of songhay creats several succesor states
-Muslim reform movements spread through Sudan
-Affected the Fulani- Pastoral people who spread across abroad area of the Western Suduan
-By 1840's Islaminization spread theough interior of West Africa
MI:
-Southern Africa- Argricultural
-Expansion=Competion
-Plantahom form east Indaia trading company
-suppourted by slave trade form Indonesia and Asia to increase productions
-1760 slavery labor source potential increase
-Boers- people of South Africa
-expansion tword the north
-Limits of luxury
MI: Economic change of Global transactions through trade ruin African chronologic balance
Baquaqa: Muslim
-member of multiple languages
-born in Bein Republic
-Captured as a slave during neighboring war and in 1845 he was sold into the Atlantic slave trade
-failed to gain freedom through American courts and fled to Boston
Sub-Sahara Africa
-Western dominated world economy was a powerful force in recasting framework of African history
-Process of religious conversions and social change ruining chronologic balance
-Influence on emerging economy through Africa: slave trade
-slave based societies throughout modern world
The Atlantic Slave Trade
MI: Portuguese's hit contract with small African territories through man trade from factories of El mina
-Portuguese hit Africa by 1487 creating factories (trading ports)
-Main fort- El Mina
-main work accomplished on small local African territories
Portuguese benefit: Ivory, pepper, gold, animal skins....etc
-Complete religious conversion into Christianity
-Images of Portuguese begin to show in the bronze of Benin
-Permeant Portuguese foundations in Luanda on the coast
-Outer competition in trading stations
-Portugal were the first slave traders in Sub-Sahara Africa by 1441
-Sugar plantations
-By 1600 the slave trade predominated over all other kinds of commerce on the African coast
MI: Slave Trade in numbers
-Between 1450-1850 12million Africans were sailed across the Atlantic
-18th century: Great Age of Atlantic slave trade
-Slave military was high and fertility was low creating loss of population
-Concentration shift
MI: New trade resources for African population such as Maize and Manioc
-Majority of trans Saharan trade of women for use of domestic work
-Atlantic soave trade main focus of men for labor workings
MI: Competition of main source of slaves. This slave trade contributed to the formation of emerging Capitalism in the Atlantic world
-Royal African Company
-Merchant towns: holding ports of slaves
-diseases spread such as Malaria
Currency: Iron bars, brass rings, cowier shells
-Indies Piece: the selling of women and children
Both sides of African and European trade in compliance with one another
Triangular trade system is formed
African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave trade
MI: The Atlantic trade interacted with and transformed the earlier aspects of slaved societies
-African society slavery varried for peasnt status to something more like chattle slavery: "Property with a soul"
-Control of slaves aided individual or liniages to increase their wealth and status
-Slaves were used as servants, concubines, soilders, administrators, and feild workers
-extensions of lineage and kinship systems
-reinforced the herarchies of various African societies
-Slaves=Aliens
Women: domestic slavery and lineages extention
-Polygyny- more than one life
-postion of women dramaticaly lowered
-slavery illeagal to those of the Muslim culture
-African rulers did not ensalve their own people, except for crimes or in unusual circumstances; Enslavement was rather done of neighboring regions
MI:Many states of Western Africa were led into instability caused by competion and warfare as the states tried to expand
-Endless wars meant need for more military and made the sale of captives into slave trade an extention of polotics
-wars take on religious overtone of belivers against non belivers
-contory trend of self sufficentcy and anti suthern ideas developed anomg theses who were inbetween salve attacks
-European presence cause shift in Locus of Power
-trade of guns prove upper hand of other neighbors
MI: The rise of Ashante and Dahomey increase trade transactions while the arts begin to combine with European dealings
-Several large state developed in West Africa during the slave trade era: ritual authority and luxurious court life
-Empire Ashante (Ashanti) rose to prominerce in the period of slave trade
-ancenstory of the Akan people
-Under the vigourus Osie tutu the title asntelrs was created to designate the supreme civil and religious leader
-military reforms
-reign until 1820's
-2/3 of population consisted of slave trade of the Ashante region
-1517 limit of trade form Benin
-Dahomey ancestored of the Fon people
-Rise of power in the 17th century
-Autocratic and brutal political regime based on slave trade
-trade controlled by royal court
-As expansion increased, elimination of royal families and customs began to increae
-Unified state
-Dahomey (19th century) slave state dependence of human trade cause negativity of society
Growing divine authority of the rulers paralled the rise of absolutiontism in Europe
-Tradition arts- Bronze castings. wood carving, weaving
-Employ of Artifacts of past 16th century
-African artists display the spiritual world
-combinaion of Affrican and European motifs
MI: The workings of East Africa and Sudan as interior expansion increased as well as Islminization
-East Africa- Swahili trading cities continue on Indian Ocean
-Tradings
Ivory
Gold
Slaves
-Use of slaves soilders to increase terrtiory
-Arabian Merchants follow European Model producing slave plantations
-Large and small kingdoms were supported by the well-watered and heavily populated region of the Great lakes of the interrid
-Bantu speakers perdominated - Absorbed immagrants
-Luo people created consturctions or related dynasties among the states
-Power between 16th-17th century
Islamination entered new and violent stahe
-Linked to external slave trade
-Break up of songhay creats several succesor states
-Muslim reform movements spread through Sudan
-Affected the Fulani- Pastoral people who spread across abroad area of the Western Suduan
-By 1840's Islaminization spread theough interior of West Africa
MI:
-Southern Africa- Argricultural
-Expansion=Competion
-Plantahom form east Indaia trading company
-suppourted by slave trade form Indonesia and Asia to increase productions
-1760 slavery labor source potential increase
-Boers- people of South Africa
-expansion tword the north
-Limits of luxury